Liquids testing at the gate?
Aug 25, 2009 | 2:55 pm
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Liquids testing at the gate?
From the DL forum:
Real or theater? Sure sounds bizarre & unscientific to me.
A friend of mine on DL1082 today told me security came on board and checked the liquids of passengers who had bought their liquids after they had gone through security. I've never heard of this happening before.
EDIT: I was mistaken. The check was done at the gate. Details below.
EDIT: I was mistaken. The check was done at the gate. Details below.
Sorry, I must clarify.
I just spoke to my friend again. The security check was not on-board. It was done while the passengers were waiting online at the gate. The security agents first tested only the passengers who had open beverages. Then the agents asked if anyone had unopened beverages and went through everyone again. Still odd.
I just spoke to my friend again. The security check was not on-board. It was done while the passengers were waiting online at the gate. The security agents first tested only the passengers who had open beverages. Then the agents asked if anyone had unopened beverages and went through everyone again. Still odd.
Aug 25, 2009 | 3:23 pm
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total theatre, total inconsistency and a baloney sandwich on rye
see these posts for more "logic"....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11813617-post37.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11814575-post42.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815290-post43.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815365-post44.html
see these posts for more "logic"....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11813617-post37.html
All of the vendor products that enter the sterile area at my airport are screened by the TSA, at the checkpoint. Water, burgers, wine, beer, water, Snickers Bars. All of it.
Do we open the water bottles? Nope. The vendor knows where they got it from, and from whom. Its all a part of the layered security process, the vendors vendors are given background screening, as are the vendors employees, and we still screen everything they bring in.
Is it a perfect system? Nope, there is no such thing.
Do we open the water bottles? Nope. The vendor knows where they got it from, and from whom. Its all a part of the layered security process, the vendors vendors are given background screening, as are the vendors employees, and we still screen everything they bring in.
Is it a perfect system? Nope, there is no such thing.
So how specifically are the vendors' bottles of water "screened by the TSA?" Do you ETD each one of them? What I have seen is the delivery person roll up to the checkpoint with a pallet of water, present some paperwork and off he goes. Is that your airport's procedure?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815290-post43.html
Your not going to like the only answer I can give. That would be revealing specifics of procedure, and I cant go there.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815365-post44.html
I have watched a vendor roll up with a cart loaded with various beverages at a very large airport.
Right through the checkpoint, no one checked anything. Not the person pushing the cart, not what was on the cart and no kind of paper work was presented.
That is security as provided by TSA.
Right through the checkpoint, no one checked anything. Not the person pushing the cart, not what was on the cart and no kind of paper work was presented.
That is security as provided by TSA.
Aug 25, 2009 | 4:32 pm
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I heard about a cup of coffee being tested at the gate the other day, but I wasn’t able to get any details. Sounds like a nice theatre recreation of cops testing for stuff on TV shows.
Aug 25, 2009 | 4:49 pm
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total theatre, total inconsistency and a baloney sandwich on rye
see these posts for more "logic"....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11813617-post37.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11814575-post42.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815290-post43.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815365-post44.html
see these posts for more "logic"....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11813617-post37.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11814575-post42.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815290-post43.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11815365-post44.html
Aug 25, 2009 | 5:09 pm
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so how does this apply to wine....?
so how does this apply to wine....?
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Aug 25, 2009 | 5:56 pm
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